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All sub-Saharan African nations now on board the Mine Ban Treaty
(Geneva, 22 May 2012): Somalia has become the 160th State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty, the United Nations confirmed today.
This morning the news was announced to delegates from more than 95 countries, assembled in Geneva for a global conference to discuss progress on the landmine ban.
Here is a chronology showing how the ICBL kick started the global movement to ban landmines, and how the campaign's diverse global members play a vital role - both then and now - in driving the world forward to achieve the movement's humanitarian aims.
The fourth edition of the ICBL-CMC newsletter gives information on the upcoming Intersessional Meeetings in Geneva, highlights from the Global Lend your Leg action and information on the ICBL's 20th anniversary. Read it online here.
Celebrities and global leaders join landmine victims and thousands worldwide calling for a final stop to landmines
The ICBL calls for all to join the Mine Ban Treaty on worldwide day of action
(Geneva, 3 April 2012): Thousands of people in more than 70 countries will roll-up their pant legs tomorrow as part of an inspirational global day of action calling for a full stop to the harm landmines still cause.
Visit our photo gallery to see inspirational images of ICBL campaigners, survivors, politicians and members of the public taking part in Lend Your Leg all over the world
ICBL gears up for the Lend your Leg global month of action. ICBL and governments around the world condemn Syria's use of landmines and Jordan’s announces that all its known mined areas have been cleared.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), through its Survivor Network Project and with specific financial support from the Norwegian government, have launched a request for proposals to support promising landmine and cluster munition survivor networks by sustaining and building their capacity.
Geneva, 27 March 2012: The ICBL welcomes Jordan’s announcement that all its known mined areas have now been cleared.
Jordan’s National Committee for Demining and Rehabilitation (NCDR), under the leadership of its Director Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein, declared on 21 March that all known minefields in the country are now safe after nearly 20 years of demining.
Becoming an intern with the ICBL-CMC provides an exciting opportunity to develop research, policy, campaigning, operational, communications and networking skills. The interns will be exposed to a wide range of organisations and individuals – including an international network of campaigners, as well as representatives of governments and international organisations.
2012 marks 20 years since the creation of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, founded by six concerned NGOs in New York in 1992.
In its anniversary year the ICBL will challenge the international community to reinvigorate its commitment to reaching a mine-free world, and to put into action the means to achieving this aim within years, not decades.
Click our 20th anniversary logo on the left to visit our dedicated web page - read about the ICBL's history, keep up to date with events, view pictures, download materials and take part in the birthday celebration of this unique global campaign.
(Geneva, 12 January 2012): Finland has become the latest nation to join the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which comprehensively bans the use, production, trade, and stockpiling of antipersonnel landmines. Finland deposited its instrument of accession at the United Nations in New York on Monday 9 January 2012, the United Nations has announced.
(Geneva, 11 November 2011): The Republic of South Sudan, where thousands live in daily fear of landmines, has become the 158th State Party to the Mine Ban Treaty, just five months after declaring independence.
(Phnom Penh, Friday 2 December 2011): A global conference on the worldwide landmine ban has concluded, with states announcing both promising progress and worrying setbacks in their efforts to eradicate landmines.
(Phnom Penh, Monday 28 November 2011): Leading members of the international community are gathered in Cambodia – the cradle of the anti-landmine movement – to push for progress in reducing the harm antipersonnel landmines still cause.
The Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty (11MSP) – which 80 per cent of countries have joined – begins today in Phnom Penh.
On the opening day of the 11MSP, ICBL interviewed Song Kosal from Cambodian Campaign to Ban Landmines. Here Kosal speaks about her experience after a landmine accident and the need to spread the word about landmines.
In the run up to the 11MSP, which is taking place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, between 28 November and 2 December 2011, the ICBL has highlighted the amazing work of some of our campaigners from around the world. Read their stories in their own words and how they are working hard to Push For Progress towards a mine free world
Until the end of December 2011 U.S. Federal employees can help support the ICBL’s global campaign to reduce the devastating effect landmines have on thousands of communities as part of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the world's largest workplace charity campaign.